Fusion solution for soldier wearable gunfire detection systems

George Cakiades; Sachi Desai; Socrates Deligeorges; Bruce E. Buckland; Jemin George

doi:10.1117/12.924733

24 May 2012 Fusion solution for soldier wearable gunfire detection systems

George Cakiades, Sachi Desai, Socrates Deligeorges, Bruce E. Buckland, Jemin George

Proceedings Volume 8388, Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications XIV; 838802 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924733
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

Currently existing acoustic based Gunfire Detection Systems (GDS) such as soldier wearable, vehicle mounted, and fixed site devices provide enemy detection and localization capabilities to the user. However, the solution to the problem of portability versus performance tradeoff remains elusive. The Data Fusion Module (DFM), described herein, is a sensor/platform agnostic software supplemental tool that addresses this tradeoff problem by leveraging existing soldier networks to enhance GDS performance across a Tactical Combat Unit (TCU). The DFM software enhances performance by leveraging all available acoustic GDS information across the TCU synergistically to calculate highly accurate solutions more consistently than any individual GDS in the TCU. The networked sensor architecture provides additional capabilities addressing the multiple shooter/fire-fight problems in addition to sniper detection/localization. The addition of the fusion solution to the overall Size, Weight and Power & Cost (SWaP&C) is zero to negligible. At the end of the first-year effort, the DFM integrated sensor network's performance was impressive showing improvements upwards of 50% in comparison to a single sensor solution. Further improvements are expected when the networked sensor architecture created in this effort is fully exploited.

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George Cakiades, Sachi Desai, Socrates Deligeorges, Bruce E. Buckland, and Jemin George "Fusion solution for soldier wearable gunfire detection systems", Proc. SPIE 8388, Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications XIV, 838802 (24 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.924733

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